I will find you in Every day scata
- Aug. 14, 2016, 4:02 p.m.
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So we had these 10 foot tall (not kidding, 10 feet) weed things growing through the shrubs in the front yard. Ugly fuckers. You couldn’t see the forsythia bush because of them. Today is really nice outside so we decided to get out there and pull them out. Well, we couldn’t pull them out because the base was basically a tree trunk.
Anyhoo, we removed them as best we could. Made me mighty itchy. I am very thankful that I had the Alegra-D on board. I came in and scrubbed my arms with Dawn because it itched so bad, and I could see the beginning of a rash on my arms. Yay for being allergic to stuffs.
Because I had no clue what these weed-things were, I hunted for an hour to find out, and I FOUND IT!
Here, check it out.
Giant fucking ragweed. ::Sigh:: I’m pretty allergic to regular ragweed, never mind this monstrous shit. Totally explains the reaction I’m having. Unfortunately I didn’t scrub under my nails, so now my lips, neck and face are burning and itchy. Tongue and throat, too. Not that I shoved my hands in my mouth. You know what I mean, right?
Anyhoo. I’m pretty uncomfortable right now. ::grumbles:: giant fucking ragweed. grrrr
Teflon Superhero ⋅ August 15, 2016
I have these vines wrapping around my trees in the back of my house. We've been yanking them down for the better part of two years to get them out of the canopy of the trees but cannot seem to pry them away from the tree trunks. We're talking vines the width of my arms wrapped around the trunks.
So, Matt handled most of that, but I kept randomly breaking out and wondering wtf is going on b/c I'm not getting into anything outside. Well, I find out he's been going into the overgrown bit of the lot to clear it out so I had to explain to him that if he's even brushing up against poison ivy it's going to get on me and make me break out just a little (I used to be highly allergic until I ate some...long story...) but he kept insisting he wasn't getting into poison ivy out there, and I kept insisting he wasn't paying attention. Then we thought maybe the dog is bringing it in. Then back to Matt bringing it in.
It wasn't until a few months ago when I broke out again and NONE of us had even touched anything, that we started backtracking what we did that day and the last thing I said was "I first came out the back door" and walked down the steps and bumped the tree by the back door like always. So we started looking the tree over to see if there's any mites or something on it, then though "Huh...maybe the vines."
IT'S POISON IVY! It's been taking over this lot for so long that it is legitimate tree-killing size! the vines are the size of my ARMS!! Of course WE didn't know it was poison Ivy b/c there's no leaves this far down! It's all in the canopies of the trees!
UGGGGGGH! Now we have to figure out how to remove the vines without hurting the trees because they're so tightly wound around them that even if I took a hatchet to it to break them, I might end up digging into the trees and hurting them!
Gilraent Teflon Superhero ⋅ August 15, 2016
I won't ask about eating the ivy lol
I had poison ivy all over my face one year. I was covered head to toe in clothes, gloves, etc. but I started sweating, didn't think, and wiped the sweat off my face. I looked like I went a couple of rounds in the ring because my face was so swollen.
Teflon Superhero Gilraent ⋅ August 15, 2016
Oh it wasn't 'a long story' because I don't want to talk about it lol. It's more "holy shit this note is long, I'm not adding to it"
Long story short, I used to be ungodly allergic to poison ivy. Like, someone mowing a half mile away stirred it up, I'd break out everywhere. On day my friends and I were going through the woods and they were heavily ribbing me about being allergic to it, so I ripped a few leaves off a plant, chewed it up (despite nearly gagging on it) and swallowed it to be a little shit and prove myself.
Well, turns out, you can nearly die if you do that because it got in my blood stream. Then it tried to make it's way out in any way possible. So I vomitted, shit, and body went into sweats..annnnd then everywhere that could sweat broke out.
I had the welps/bumps/pus all in my mouth, tongue, throat, ears, ear canals, naughty bits, eye lids...you name it...it wasn't a fun time.
BUT! Since then, I'm only slightly allergic to it. Usually it'll only break out on my fingers and I'll wash them and pour alcohol on them and it never spreads beyond that.
So I guess....a good thing?? LOL
Gilraent Teflon Superhero ⋅ August 15, 2016
omg you dork! Oy!
Sister ⋅ August 15, 2016
Oh Yuck...